Challenge Yourself! A Librarian's Guide to Anti-racism

This resource list is intended to provide a variety of ways to educate yourself about racism. Do a bit from each area if you can, or just watch the YouTube videos if your time is limited. The important thing is to get started. Join us on Beanstack

BLACK AUTHORS (Fiction)

The Bluest Eye/ Toni Morrison
The Water Dancer: a novel / Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Mothers by Brit Bennett
Training School for Negro Girls / Camille Acker
The Girl Who Fell From the Sky / Heidi W. Durrow (set in Portland)
Here is a list for more ideas

UNDERSTANDING WHITE PRIVILEGE

White Fragility/ Robin DiAngelo
So You Want to Talk About Race/  Ijeoma Oluo.
Me and white supremacy: combat racism, change the world, and become a good ancestor / Layla F. Saad
How to Be an Antiracist/ Ibram X. Kendi

HISTORY OF RACISM

The new Jim Crow: mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness / Michelle Alexander

Between the World and Me / Ta-Nehisi Coates
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?

CHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVE 

White awake: an honest look at what it means to be white by Daniel Hill 
Dear church: a love letter from a black preacher to the whitest denomination in the U.S / Lenny Duncan
Dream with me: race, love, and the struggle we must win / John M. Perkins

BIOGRAPHY

I Am Not Your Negro/ James Baldwin

Survival math: notes on an all-American family/ Mitchell S. Jackson (set in Portland)
Harriet Tubman: Road to Freedom / Catherine Clinton

AFROFUTURISM (SciFi)

Parable of the Sower/ Octavia Butler

The Fifth Season/ N. K. Jemisin
Binti/ Nnedi Okorafor

DOCUMENTARY

13th (on Netflix or YouTube)
I Am Not Your Negro (Library, Amazon) 
Time: The Kalief Browder Story (Netflix)
Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland
Whose Streets?
King in the Wilderness

TV SERIES

Dear White People (TV series on Netflix)
When They See Us (mini-series on Netflix, based on a true story)
Hidden Colors 

MOVIES

Moonlight (multiple services, Library dvd)
If Beale Street Could Talk (Library, Hulu, Amazon)
Dear White People (movie)
Just Mercy (based on a true story)
American Son 
Harriet
Fruitvale Station

YOUTUBE  

Deconstructing White Privilege - This is a good place to start if you want to understand what white privilege really means
Van Jones - Implicit Bias 
Black Parents Explain How to Deal with the Police
A Conversation About Growing up Black
Why Colorblindness will not End Racism
Christain Cooper on The View
Remembering Kalief Browder  
Cracking the Codes: Joy DeGruy, A Trip to the Grocery Store

PODCASTS

5 Podcasts To Listen To If You Really Want To Know About Race In America

BLOGS & ARTICLES

Read a story on this Black History blog: Black History
It's Been 31 Years Since Lloyd "Tony" Stevenson Was Killed by Portland Police at Age 31
George Floyd: Five pieces of context to understand the protests
Know Their Names
What does ‘defund the police’ mean and does it have merit?
Cahoots program in Eugene, OR has been working for over 30 years

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